Our home cooking for Chinese tofu pork mince. Firm tofu is red cooked with pork mince. Easy and full of flavor.

Tofu is healthy, low in fat and high in protein and calcium.
In this Chinese tofu pork mince recipe, you will see how I use so called "red cook" to make this dish.

You may find tofu available from your local Chinese food
market. If pay attention, you may notice there are several types of tofu
product. The firm tofu is normally square shape like shown in
following picture. It may be packed in the bag or stored in the water. The soft
one has almost sort of jelly texture, such as Japanese tofu. There is also fried tofu,
normally ball-shaped, fluffy, with the fried skin.

For this recipe it is better to use the firm tofu or
fried tofu.

Prep Time: 5 mins Cook Time:15-20 mins

Ingredients:

To cook pork mince:

200g pork mince

1 tbsp
oil

½ tsp salt

½ tsp sugar

2 tsp light soy sauce

½ tsp dark soy sauce (if want to add colour)

To cook tofu:

250g firm tofu

1 tbsp oil

salt

1 tbsp chinese sweet bean paste (tian mian jiang,甜面酱)

Leek, one inch long

Ginger, half thumb size

1 tsp Chinese chilli paste

One red pepper

One medium hot green chilli

Method for Chinese Tofu Pork Mince

Prepare:

slice leek into the thin threads; cut ginger into small threads

cut tofu into ½ cm thick slices

cut red pepper and green chill into shreds

Cook:

Heat the frying pan until it is very hot. Add oil and wait till high heat.

Mix and cook for about 3-5 minutes. Add about 2-3 tbsp water, mix and cover the lid to cook serval minutes so
the taste can get into the tofu. Once finished, serve hot.

Tips:

To save time, you may start to heat the frying
pan first, because it usually takes about 5 mins for the electrical cooker to heat
up till it is very hot. You may use the time to prepare the ingredients.

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